My name is Jose and i have been a member for about a year now so i decided to talk and show hows my progress goes with my celica. So i purchased my Celica back in 2010 i fell in love with Celicas since the first time i knew about them and i started my research from engine types to model years. while i was looking at Celicas i came across one that was a 95 beige one but it was too expensive at that time and i needed to trade my old car and give the rest in cash, so i kept searching until i saw this add on the internet:
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So i went to see it with my uncles and we tried it and instantly i fell in love with it but at that time i didn't know much about it or where it came from. here are some pics of my celica first day at my house:
I will be posting more info and pics.
Celicas en guatemala. Ya decia yo que las construcciones se me hacian reconocibles
I didn't know Norberto spoke un-American, learn something new everyday.
Anyhow, welcome! Car looks to be in great shape.
Heres my First of many speeding tickets i got:
So my first mod for my celica was my XXR 17" rims Black and silver with red. here are some pics:
The i got my second Speeding ticket
After a while one of my friends invited me to a stance meet and i met some 6gen
Your plate tag is over 9,000!!!
My first 6gen meet
About a week later i got hit by a drunk motorcycle driver
Took me a while to get my Celica fix but it was all worth it.
Here are some pics from my photography class:
More Random pics of my Celica:
My rescued dog likes Celicas too lol:
After breaking my rims for all the potholes thats around my way i decided to buy me some steely s:
Then i got myself another speeding Ticket:
What is it with you and speeding tickets? I have about four times the power and stay out of trouble. You should keep an eye out for some nice 14" alloys, the problem being not many cars have the 5-100 pattern. Most are either 4-100 or 5x114.3 it seems.
hahah. so far, all i've read is speeding tickets. hahaha
I can't imagine how you would be if you had a 3sgte in your car.
My next purchase was mud flaps since i have seen some Celicas and the rally GTFour with them i decided to get a pair.Installing them was easy since i used the same holes that its use to mount the back splitters the only thing i did different was use another screws and washers and downloaded the level app for my iphone could get them straight as possible:
mud flaps from Ebay
Things i used to hold them in place
Final Product
Really, another speeding ticket after the flaps?
Man, just think of all of that money that could be used for car parts.
The next item i got for my celica is a Simota intake Carbon Fiber Shell:
It took me a while and help from friends to get it to fit right.
After that i got hit by another dumb driver
i was sad and mad at the same time but still i had to fix my Celica . Took a week to repair it.
After saving money and looking at it on Ebay, finally i purchased my Roof Visor almost a year to get it and i didnt wait to put it on my Celica:
More Pics of my Celica:
Another Mod Was the custom Made side Fender light red:
I like how the intake snorkel is sucking air from the hottest part of the engine bay.
Today its a sad day, my Celica overheated becuase the fans stop working and on top of that the two fuse boxes started to smoke
The radiators are notorious for cracking due to age, so maybe you lucked out and that's it. If it were the fans it would've taken some time for it to overheat and you would've noticed the temp climbing. When mine cracked there was a large amount of steam and the temp gauge indicated it was overheating, even though I know it didn't because it happened when the car wasn't even running and I was listening to the radio. It sounds like coolant found its way into the fuse and relay boxes, will just have to check things out with a multimeter.
Sounds more like an electrical issue involving the fuses to me rather than the radiator failing. If you were in stop and go traffic in the city with no direct air on through to the radiator it would start climbing with the temp due to your fans not running. It's amazing how much they keep the motor in check with the temp. Which fuse boxes smoked out on you?
Though there'd have to be a reason for the fuses to blow in the fashion they did. They'd have to been overloaded quite significantly to throw smoke. Could be as simple as someone used way too low of an amperage fuse, that or the motors shorted out.
Hopefully it's something simple and the engine didn't suffer any damage. Aluminum heads don't like overheating at all.
My celica Got back Yesterday nothing serious it was just one wire that was on the relay box. Thanks to all of those who told me possible things that could of started the problem.
So one day while browsing for Celica parts i came a cross on a pair of Curren Headlights:
But they are not any Curren headlights they are a rare kouki dark tint Curren headlights. still looking for more parts to make the Curren conversion.
Once i got my new radio/DvD player on i wanted to make my console look different and unique and with the help of one of my friends we Carbon Fiber wrapped it:
And heres a little video of my celica and a few other celicas:
http://vid76.photobucket.com/albums/j27/Joseph_Tumacaj/VID-20130907-WA000_zps5fxgmz4d.mp4
This is how my Celica looks so far:
I will be posting how Im gonna restore my GTFOUR front strut bar and the special design i got plan for it, This is how it looks right now:
I want to say the GT-Four had a 3 piece front strut bar, but I could be mistaken. Someone with a more relevant memory could say for sure. I know that's the same as a regular GT anyway.
The GT4 got the same strut bar as the GT's and SS-III's. The TRD strut bar won't clear the intercooler, sadly.
Ahh ok. So there you go. I thought there was something about the TRD 3-point and the intercooler, but at the same time I remembered there was one that would clear. Though at the same time, be careful in the future not to pay more just because it's a "GT-Four" or "SS" part when a regular GT had the same thing.
I say you got a good deal then. The rear strut bar was exclusive to the GT-Four though I want to say, so of course it'll be more expensive.
So today i finally got around to sand my Front strut bar since its color got faded and it had some rust spots on it. Here are some pics to show the rust spots:
So after a while of work and dedication it looks like this:
I used 80 grid sand paper.
I still gotta figure out how to get to the hard to reach spots so i can get rid of the rust on both ends of the bars any suggestion let me know.
Dremel with a cone shaped sanding stone.
Finally i painted my front strut bar first i applied black antirust paint on it:
It dried out and it look like this:
To make it more custom and unique i decided to paint a design on it:
I made templates of the 6Gen Celica dragons out of vinyl and painted over them in red:
This is how it looks install in my engine bay:
A pic of my rear strut bar too:
Since i got in the mood of painting decided to paint the headers cover too:
And the next day i got my splitters:
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